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small number of resident birds. Although I secured series of 

 all these winter forms, and of some of them large series, still 

 the work was insufficient to occupy my time, and as I had 

 nothing to read and was unable to carry on any extended con- 

 versation with the few people who found their way to my 

 cabin, I passed a very monotonous winter. Many days I was 

 unable to leave the house on account of the severe wind- 

 storms which filled the air with snow so that one could not 

 see twenty yards away. 



In the latter part of November I took three sledges and 

 visited a large herd of Koryak reindeer which were at that 

 time herded at the base of the mountains fifty miles to the 

 eastward, and selected specimens suitable for a group. 



Mr. Jochelson returned to the Kooshka on January 29 from 

 his wandering among the Koryak lagers. I learned from 

 him that there was a number of specimens at Marcova which 

 Mr. Bogoras had sent and which needed my attention. I had 

 originally intended to remain in the vicinity of Gichiga only 

 until March and then go to Marcova and to the mouth of the 

 Anadyr River and await the one steamer which comes there 

 every summer, and return by it to Vladivostok. But on 

 account of my late arrival at Gichiga, the early departure of 

 the vessel from Anadyr the following summer, and consequent 

 shorter time in the field, and other reasons, I decided to alter 

 my plans and put in all my time in the Gichiga territory. 

 However, after consulting Mr. Jochelson, and knowing that 

 there was nothing to be gained by remaining at Kooshka -, I 

 decided to go to Marcova, prepare whatever material had 

 accumulated, collect anything else possible, and return to 

 Gichiga in the spring before the snow left and the birds 

 arrived. 



I engaged two Cossacks and two sledges with fourteen dogs 

 to each, and on February 21 left Kooshka for Marcova. Mar- 

 cova is situated on the middle Anadyr River, 500 miles from 

 its mouth and 600 miles from Gichiga. The route over which 

 I was to go was the same as that travelled by the Russo- 

 American Telegraph Company's party of Americans in 1866- 

 67, and so thrillingly described by George Kennan in his 



